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Hurricane Damage In The Blue Ridge Mountains Shows Us Why We Fight

November 1, 2024 admin Appalachia, climate change, hurricanes

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:14:33 +0000

When it comes to sheer altitude, the western mountains of the United States are hard to beat. In North America, they’re the tallest, and even in the Americas, the larger American Cordillera that runs from Alaska to Antarctica has the tallest mountains on both continents. Depending on how you measure … [continued]

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EV Charging Before, During, & After Hurricane Milton Struck Florida

October 30, 2024 admin clean transport, Disaster response, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev home charging, Florida, home ev charging, hurricane milton, hurricanes, Natural Disasters, public charging, usa

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:21:31 +0000

EV charging data and anecdotal evidence both indicate that charging up an EV was easier than filling up a gas tank in Florida before and after Hurricane Milton made landfall.

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What Does A One-In-A-1000 Year Storm Look Like — And Will We Be Seeing Them More Frequently?

October 29, 2024 admin climate change, events, Fossil Fuels, hurricanes

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 03:15:16 +0000

Hurricanes have always been taken seriously by residents who live on coastlines. After all, there are historical precedents that make clear how much damage can accrue from a hurricane’s wrath. What’s not so well understood is how what used to be referred to as a one-in-1000 year storm generates wind … [continued]

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$474 Million for More Grid Resilience in USA

October 29, 2024 admin bipartisan infrastructure law, Democrats, grid, hurricanes, jennifer granholm, Natural Disasters, policy & politics, subsidies, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:55:53 +0000

After Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton knocked out power for millions of Americans recently, grid resilience is top of mind. We need better grid resilience. In some places, electricity came back within a few hours. In others, it took a day or two. In places with poor grid resilience, it … [continued]

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Soaring Cleantech Manufacturing, EV Sales Records, Hurricanes — Top Cleantech Stories

October 24, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica top 10, climate change, electric cars, electric motorcycles, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev sales, green economy, green jobs, hurricanes, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, market research, policy & politics, research, rooftop solar, Solar energy, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:39:08 +0000

Our operations here at CleanTechnica got quite disrupted by a couple of recent hurricanes — Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene. As a result, we’ve got a lot of news to catch up on for our regular roundups on top cleantech stories. In this edition, I’m going to break the highlights … [continued]

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How Well Do Rooftop Solar Systems Survive A Hurricane?

October 22, 2024 admin clean power, Florida, hurricane milton, hurricanes, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar power benefits, sunnova, sunnova energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:26:34 +0000

As we went through Hurricane Milton down here in Southwest Florida, and particularly as the roofs all over my neighborhood got torn up, I and many others wondered: how well do rooftop solar systems survive in a hurricane here? While I’ve seen the shingles ripped off many a roof from … [continued]

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How Solar and Battery Kept An Appalachian Farm Going

October 20, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, Energy Storage, hurricanes, lithium-ion batteries, Solar energy, solar energy advantages, solar energy benefits

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 12:28:42 +0000

No matter how many transcontinental trips people take, no matter how many severe weather events are survived with an EV’s battery, and no matter how many other things clean technology does—there’s a persistent myth that it’s not up to the task. Solar and wind “don’t work when the wind doesn’t … [continued]

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Meteorologists Who Connect Hurricanes And The Climate Crisis Are Being Threatened

October 19, 2024 admin climate change, Donald Trump, Fossil Fuels, global weirding, hurricanes, Media, meteorologists, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:41:35 +0000

When former President Donald J. Trump was elected, he took aim at every policy linked to the phrase “climate change” and repealed it. President Joe Biden reinstated the standard, which went into effect at most agencies. As columnist Bret Stephens asks this week in the New York Times, “Can we … [continued]

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This Net-Zero Community Got Hit Hard By Hurricane Milton And Is Fine

October 18, 2024 admin batteries, buildings, clean power, climate adaptation, Energy Storage, Florida, hurricane milton, hurricanes, lithium-ion batteries, net zero buildings, net zero energy homes, net-zero, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar energy advantages, solar energy benefits

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:04:38 +0000

After Hurricane Ian, we discovered that a sustainable, cleantech-loving community down right in the brunt of the destruction held up superbly when communities around it did not. Now, another horrific hurricane has plowed through Florida a bit further north (right where I live, in fact) and another cleantech-focused community has … [continued]

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5 Reasons Electric Cars Are Much Better In A Hurricane

October 17, 2024 admin clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev charging, hurricanes, Nissan, tesla, tesla supercharging, vehicle to grid

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 03:53:25 +0000

As some of you know, I was just recently hit straight on by Hurricane Milton. We went right through the center of the eye. (Ironically, it turns out, the actor who played Milton in Office Space — the stapler guy — is from Sarasota. How long has this been planned?!?!) … [continued]

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